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On and Off The Board: ‘Joy and Pleasure Don’t Detract from the Movement.’

More than just bisexual lighting and chess looks, a local queer-themed chess club is taking a stand on the Gaza conflict.

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On and Off The Board: ‘Joy and Pleasure Don’t Detract from the Movement.’

More than just bisexual lighting and chess looks, a local queer-themed chess club is taking a stand on the Gaza conflict.

On and Off The Board: ‘Joy and Pleasure Don’t Detract from the Movement.’

If dusty old men or frenzied children are the first things that come to mind when thinking of chess clubs, the opposite couldn’t be more true for Bushwick’s own Queers Gambit, which operates out of both the local bar Purgatory and Franklin Park in nearby Crown Heights, rotating biweekly every Thursday. 

“People show up consistently. It hasn’t been long and we’re grounding ourselves as a pillar in the queer activity community,” Niki Cross, a team captain at Queers Gambit, tells me…

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